Lauren Barjhoux, a student at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design – Reims, recently showcased her ‘Stretchy Console’ table at Designhuis during DDW. The piece, which was inspired by a carpenter’s ruler, can contract and expand to create a table of any length. What’s more impressive is that it is made out of solid wood with no screws. (Image on left © DR)
‘A Tree’ by Dutch design student Monique Habraken is a simple and elegant dining room table. I love the detail of the inlaid tree branch on the table top running through to the leg.
Lovely ceramic work by Dutch Design student Jochem de Wit. Though the pieces have rough elements, there is still a simplistic beauty to them.
PULP is a collection of vessels made entirely from paper waste by Studio Jo Meesters. The Dutch designer re-uses discarded vessels as his mold, then adds epoxy and polyurethane into the pulp mixture to make objects that can hold water.
Francois Dumas was one of the graduates presenting at the Design Academy Eindhoven last month. Using his own handmade wooden molds, the designer created a small run of chairs by heating and joining three plastic rods.
Love these handmade paper lanterns by Dutch designer Paula Arntzen.
Fumiaki Goto’s ‘A Light to Stand Up’ is a clever solution for a mobile lamp. Like an over-sized light switch, the lamp turns on when you flip it up.
Wendy Legro was one of the recent graduates showing her work at the Eindhoven Academy show during DDW. Her ‘Morning Glory’ project is a flower shaped light equipped with sensors. During the day, the flower closes up, allowing sunshine in. When it gets dark, the flower opens and emits light.
Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk is light that has a life of its own. When turned on, the lamp not only provides light – it slowly grows, knitting its own lampshade. As a result, “the lamp becomes an animate part of space, an existence in its own right.”
Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders recently presented ‘Tafelstukken’ at the Dutch Invertuals show in Eindhoven. These three lamps are meant to be modern versions of the traditional table centerpiece, “shining upon themselves and their contents.”
